NOTE

The Motions and Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order to be proposed by Margaret Beckett in her Motion (Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill (Supplemental Allocation of Time)), namely Lords Amendments Nos. 42 to 46, followed by remaining Lords Amendments in numerical order.

42

Mr Secretary Darling

To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

To move the following Amendments to the words so restored to the Bill:

Page 66, line 4, after 'years', insert ', or for a total of ten years during the period of his working life,'.

Mr Secretary Darling

(d)

Page 66, line 23, leave out 'For this purpose' and insert

"(9) In sub-paragraph (8)

"benefit" includes (in addition to any benefit under Parts II to V of this Act)

(a) any benefit under Parts VII to XII of this Act, and

(b) credits under regulations under section 22(5) above;".

43

Mr Secretary Darling

To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

To move the following Amendments to the words so restored to the Bill:

Mr Secretary Darling

(c)

Page 66, line 27, leave out from '(1)' to end of line 42 and insert 'Where

(a) a person is entitled to incapacity benefit in respect of any period of a week or part of a week,

(b) a pension payment is payable to him in respect of that period (or a period which forms part of that period or includes that period or part of it), and

(c) the amount of that payment (or, as the case may be, the amount which in accordance with regulations is to be taken as payable to him by way of pension payments in respect of that period) exceeds the threshold,

the amount of that benefit shall be reduced by an amount equal to 50 per cent. of that excess.

(1A) In subsection (1) above "the threshold" means

(a) if the period in question is a week, £85 or such greater amount as may be prescribed; or

(b) if that period is not a week, such proportion of the amount mentioned in paragraph (a) as falls to be calculated in accordance with regulations on such basis as may be prescribed.

(1B) Regulations may secure that a person of any prescribed description does not suffer any reduction under subsection (1) in any amount of incapacity benefit to which he is entitled.

(2) Regulations may provide

( ) for sums of any specified description to be disregarded for the purposes of this section;'.